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Photobucket Lets Users Scrapbook with Scrapblog IntegrationAugust 21st, 2008 at 9:43 amSource:Mashable! Document sharing is actually quite a crowded space, with several serious competitors; Scribd and Docstoc come to mind, but I’m sure there are many others. However, Zoho has been so thorough with their online office suite that it’s only logical they created a document sharing service of their own. Their vision of how document sharing should look is called Zoho Share, and unlike most competitors, who still feel they need to explain what their service is about, they really take the youtube route, with the homepage immediately hitting you with recent and featured document, as well as most prolific and recent users of the service. Surprisingly, the official FAQ doesn’t work, but the service is so easy to use I’m sure everyone will get around without problems. It supports all Zoho’s formats, PDF files, Microsoft Word documents, and other popular formats, sans the much hated new Office formats (.docx and others). Users can grade, flag and comment all shared documents. Whatever you share, you can embed in a viewer which works quite well, although a zoom function would be nice (or necessary, in case of certain formats like PDFs). Scribd’s iPaper is much better with this regard, and although I’m used to Zoho releasing products which are well ahead of the curve when it comes to features, this time they’ve chosen a barebone approach which probably won’t be enough for some users. —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Zoho Meeting Live for Web ConferencingZoho Business Launching At Office 2.0 ConferenceZoho Reaches 300,000 MembersZoho Releases Creator 2.0Zoho Notebook to Launch TonightZoho Launches Zoho Start: Netvibes for DocumentsZoho Writer Gets More Professional
You can already do a lot with Photobucket–host your photos, create albums, slide shows and even share videos. Photobucket has managed to integrate with a number of third party services, creating multimedia to be easily shared on your Facebook profile, in a variety of ways. While much of Photobucket’s initial popularity seemed to fluctuate with a love-hate relationship with MySpace, in the end MySpace made the move to acquire Photobucket, making the photo-hosting and sharing service even more deeply integrated with a widely-used social network. Now, Photobucket has teamed up with online scrapbooking tool Scrapblog to provide its users another way in which to chronicle and share their multimedia content. This is offered through a Scrapblog application which is now available through Photobucket, providing scrapbook templates that can be created from scratch or take advantage of one of Scrapblog’s many themes celebrating vacations, sports, weddings, and holidays. There are also branded template options that are modeled after popular television programs such as Disney’s “High School Musical 3.” Seeing as Scrapblog is partnering with more and more brands such as Carnival for highly specific scrapbook themes, the new availability of its application on a service like Photobucket could easily be spread even further across the Web. Seeing as Photobucket already had a great deal of custom options, including themes for various events and holidays, one way in which to further extend the options available to users is more comprehensive ways in which to turn media into a story-telling device. More applications are emerging with portable methods in which to share media, some, like the mobile app Moblyng, work directly with content already existing on MySpace, and others, like Heekya, present themselves specifically for such integrated story-telling tools. —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Scrapblog and March of Dimes Go on TourScrapblog Raises Capital from Steamboat VenturesScrapblog Ain’t Too ScrappyScrapblog Powering Carnival Cruise ScrapbooksGet an Exclusive Invitation to the Photobucket Developer Party on April 23rdPhotobucket Launches API, Picnik Taps InPhotobucket Gains on comScore’s Top 25 List
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